It is important to be aware of how kids are dealing with the food and diet talk that is likely surrounding them, as well. If you want to avoid pulling your kids into the waters of objectification to struggle alongside you, you have to start by fixing your own faulty beliefs and habits. Throw out your diet books. Unfollow thinness-focused accounts and influencers. Ditch your bathroom scale. Eat that slice of birthday cake with everyone else. Don’t moralize food as “good” or “bad,” but instead talk about the ways it makes you feel, the variety of flavors and colors that are important to have,
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